VP, Product Security

Early Warning Services•Scottsdale, AZ

8h•Hybrid

About The Position

This position provides security and thought leadership for the Early Warning Product Security program including: developing, implementing, and maturing of security on all Early Warning product offerings in order to minimize the possibility of malicious access, attacks, and data breaches. The position employs a high level of technical knowledge in the area of cloud security, DevSecOps, and CI/CD pipelines in order to create secure and scalable financial products. The position reports to the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), but recognizing the network-wide nature of the responsibility, will frequently be involved with product management, product development, product engineering, cloud engineering, 3rd party audits, regulator interaction and customer facing security issues.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math or Physical Science
13 or more years of relevant work experience and leadership experience in applicable information security roles.
Experience with various types of information security tools and controls.
Clear and concise understanding of current security vulnerabilities and attacks.
Experience evaluating and assigning risk levels to uncovered issues
Experience with the OWASP Top 10 and other Application Security issues
Extensive experience with network security design and protection, application development, application security issues, operating system security, hardening standards and protection mechanisms.
Extensive and diverse experience with the fundamentals of security devices (design and function).
Ability to articulate the practical and technical application of the following standards: (ISO, PCI, FedRAMP and FISMA)
Excellent verbal, written skills, and interpersonal skills with a demonstrated ability to support complex organizational relationships.
Background and drug screen
Eligibility to work in the United States for any employer at the date of hire.

Nice To Haves

Ten or more years of product, architecture, or cloud security experience within the financial sector
In depth knowledge with public cloud service architectures such as AWS, Azure, and GCP.
GCSA, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Security Certifications: CISSP, GCSA, CISM, CISA or equivalent.

Responsibilities

Provides exceptional leadership in developing highly engaged, high performance team.
Creates frictionless paths for engineering teams to securely build and deploy new products.
Manages the development, deployment and execution of controls and defenses to ensure the security and risk mitigation developed products and digital payment systems.
Identifies and designs cybersecurity architecture, goals, objectives and performance metrics, including KRI’s and KPI’s; analyzes business needs and priorities for protection of critical systems.
Establishes and implements appropriate product security standards for the secure development, operations, and compliance.
Leverages in depth knowledge of threat modeling, secure software development lifecycle, cloud security, cryptography, authentication, and authorization design patterns.
Lead cross functional teams to architect, design, and deploy secure cloud services and application architecture.
Leads purple team certifications for all products to ensure that products are designed with logging and monitoring capabilities adequate for detecting and responding to all potential cybersecurity events.
Provides subject matter expertise and support for vulnerability audits and product incident response.
Oversees the quality of code analysis, reporting and resolution.
Identifies issue trends and drives root cause resolutions.
Evaluates potential business impacts from security breaches and provides strategic and tactical guidance to business decision-makers.
Develops and executes security systems compliance policies and procedures.
Prevents production vulnerabilities and ensures quick resolution of security testing findings, such as bug bounty, penetration testing, or audit findings.
Interacts with customers, regulators and auditors on a regular basis.
Support the company’s commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.

Benefits

Competitive medical (PPO/HDHP), dental, and vision plans
Company contributions to your Health Savings Account (HSA)
Pre-tax savings through flexible spending accounts (FSA) for commuting, health & dependent care expenses.
401(k) Retirement Plan – Featuring a 100% Company Safe Harbor Match on your first 6% deferral immediately upon eligibility.
Flexible Time Off for Exempt (salaried) employees
Generous PTO for Non-Exempt (hourly) employees
11 paid company holidays
A paid volunteer day
12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave
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